Book TV Schedule: April 5th - 7th

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: April 5-7
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A monthly LIVE author interview, featuring your calls
Sunday 12 PM-3 PM ET, re-airs Sunday at midnight ET
Michael Eric Dyson, University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, is the author of sixteen books, including Hollar If You Hear Me, Open Mike, Why I Love Black Women, Is Bill Cosby Right?, and Debating Race. His latest book is April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America. For more on Professor Dyson and his work, visit www.michaelericdyson.com.

You can participate in the discussion by calling in during the program: East/Central Time Zone, 202-737- 0001, Mountain/Pacific Time Zone 202-737-0002, or by e-mailing your questions to booktv@c-span.org.


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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM,
Monday 12 AM and 3 AM ET
Dee Dee Myers, former White House press secretary during the Clinton administration and the first woman to hold the position, recounts her political career and the challenges she faced as a woman in the West Wing. In Why Women Should Rule the World, Ms. Myers argues that the increased number of women in leadership positions creates a stronger society. From the halls of government to corporate boardrooms, Ms. Myers profiles women who have garnered success in their respective fields. Dee Dee Myers discusses her book with Dana Perino, the current White House press secretary.


Weekend Highlights
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Arlen Specter, Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate
Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) chronicles his experience of being diagnosed and treated for the most advanced stage of Hodgkin's Disease while maintaining his duties in the Senate. Senator Specter spoke about his book at the Free Library of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.
(Sunday 8 AM and 3 PM, Monday 7 AM ET)

Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Michio Kaku talks about the advancements in science that could make several science-fiction technologies a possibility in the real world. Professor Kaku spoke at the Smithsonian's S. Dillon Ripley Center in Washington, DC.
(Saturday 8 AM and 8:15 PM, Monday 4 AM ET)

Nick Hanauer and Eric Liu, The True Patriot
Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton, and Nick Hanauer contend that the definition of patriotism has been misappropriated by the right and must be redefined and accepted by the left. They present several examples of what true patriotism means to them, which includes the ideas of "community above self" and "opportunity, with personal initiative." The event was hosted by the New America Foundation in Washington, DC.
(Sunday 3 AM and 7 PM ET)

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe talks about his novel at the offices of The Washington Post. The fifty-year-old novel, which looks at the impact of British colonialism on a village in Nigeria, has been translated into over 40 languages and over ten million copies have been sold worldwide.
(Sunday 9 AM and 10:45 PM ET)



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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).

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Saturday, April 5, 2008

8:00 AM 1 hr, 12 min Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Author: Michio Kaku

9:15 AM 1 hr, 40 min The Future of Independent Publishing
Author: Andre Schiffrin

11:00 AM 54 min Almost Human: Making Robots Think
Author: Lee Gutkind

12:00 PM 1 hr, 37 min History
Richard Wright at 100: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Author: Richard Wright

2:00 PM 1 hr, 42 min History
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Author: Nicholson Baker

3:45 PM 1 hr, 6 min A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford
Author: Richard Reeves

5:00 PM 57 min History
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
Author: Joshua Kendall

6:00 PM 58 min Encore Booknotes
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
Author: Taylor Branch

7:00 PM 1 hr, 16 min Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
Author: Cynthia Cooper

8:15 PM 1 hr, 12 min Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Author: Michio Kaku

9:30 PM 34 min Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
Author: Ben Mezrich

10:00 PM 57 min After Words: Dee Dee Myers author of "Why Women Should Rule The World" interviewed by Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary

11:00 PM 1 hr, 3 min The Devil's Delusion: Atheism And Its Scientific Pretensions
Author: David Berlinski


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Sunday, April 6, 2008

12:15 AM 1 hr, 40 min The Future of Independent Publishing
Author: Andre Schiffrin

2:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min American Power After the Berlin Wall
Author: Thomas Henriksen

3:00 AM 1 hr, 33 min Politics
The True Patriot
Authors: Nick Hanauer; Eric Liu

4:30 AM 1 hr, 17 min Race: A History Beyond Black and White
Author: Marc Aronson

5:45 AM 40 min Holding Her Head High: 12 Single Mothers Who Championed Their Children and Changed History
Author: Janine Turner

6:30 AM 1 hr, 3 min The Devil's Delusion: Atheism And Its Scientific Pretensions
Author: David Berlinski

8:00 AM 54 min Politics
Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate
Author: Arlen Specter

9:00 AM 1 hr, 9 min Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe

10:15 AM 53 min The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
Author: Tim Harford

11:00 AM 55 min After Words: Robin Wright, "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East" interviewed by Anthony Cordesman

12:00 PM 3 hr In Depth: Michael Eric Dyson

3:00 PM 54 min Politics
Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate
Author: Arlen Specter

4:00 PM 55 min Politics
Learning A New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society
Authors: Carola Suarez-Orozco; Marcelo Suarez-Orozco

5:00 PM 57 min Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
Author: Dalia Mogahed

6:00 PM 57 min After Words: Dee Dee Myers author of "Why Women Should Rule The World" interviewed by Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary

7:00 PM 1 hr, 33 min Politics
The True Patriot
Authors: Nick Hanauer; Eric Liu

8:30 PM 27 min History
Diane Ackerman, "The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story"
Author: Diane Ackerman

9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Dee Dee Myers author of "Why Women Should Rule The World" interviewed by Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary

10:00 PM 30 min Public Lives
The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News
Author: Roger Mudd

10:45 PM 1 hr, 9 min Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe


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Monday, April 7, 2008

12:00 AM 3 hr In Depth: Michael Eric Dyson

3:00 AM 57 min After Words: Dee Dee Myers author of "Why Women Should Rule The World" interviewed by Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary

4:00 AM 1 hr, 12 min Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Author: Michio Kaku

5:15 AM 37 min Politics
FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics
Authors: Neal Boortz; Rep. John Linder

6:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Author: Michael Pollan

7:00 AM 54 min Politics
Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate
Author: Arlen Specter

http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx

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Thanks, Vivala!

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Is that like the return of the repressed?

It sounds so much more revolutionary when he says it!

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